A collection of Eliot's most important early poems combines poetic elements from diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech to recreate the chaos of Europe in the aftermath of World War I
Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- Preludes -- Gerontion -- Sweeney among the Nightingales -- Waste land: Burial of the dead -- Game of chess -- Fire sermon -- Death by water -- What the thunder said -- Notes on the waste land -- Ash-Wednesday -- Journey of the Magi -- Marina -- Landscapes: New Hampshire -- Virginia -- Usk -- Two choruses from "The Rock."